Radio Controlled Soaring Digest March 1998 Issue
Issue Contents:
Carbon D-light is a high performance sailplane with a 2 oz FG fuselage Molded carbon D-box of S4083. 3.9 oz/ft 2
Pensacola 97 scale fly in is shown with beautiful photos. There were long flights. 20 pilots attended.
Making lost foam fuselages is described with considerable detail on how. Small diameter fuselages are stronger than large ones of same weight.
Three new TD airfoils are made available in Summary of Low-speed Airfoil Data – Volume 3 which is available from H.Stokely in Virginia Beach VA.The airfoils are mods. of SD7037. The book provides a good source of information for the technical modeler. Michael Selig at UIUC is source
Dynamic Soaring by John Roe shows Joe Wurts doing amazing things on Parker Mtn. in CA. plus HLG flying at IHLGF in Poway CA.
Airborne to be Wild video is reviewed. shot in Hawaii and Australia.Good tape to have in your library. EPP Combat and more.
The choice of wood tail surfaces or Coroplast is discussed. Coroplast is probably best for combat and new beginners.
Mattes Models and Garrison Aerodrome have brought electric foamy models to market. Speed 400 Push-e Cat 8 minute flights are common w/ 600 ma bat.
EPP Foamy planes have made slope combat a more practical mode of enjoying soaring. Repairs are more practical than ever before.
Aerobatic routines can be created by developing a few skills and putting them together. A list of tasks is given to develop your skills.Maneuver descriptions: Stall Turn Reverse Cuban 8 Reverse 1/2 Cuban 8 (Split S)
Airborne to be Wild video by Studio B Design and Production is a 55 min video narrated by Lex Liberato showing PSS and Scale slope soaring.Safety is in stressed as well as great soaring shots of SR-7F4 Phantom a real falcon. $25 + S&H 808-968-8721
Can be built in 3 evenings. Pink foam wings. Dave built a conventional tail vs the V tail in plans. High launches are acheieved.
Chip Vignolis Ariel HLG kit is a well designed inexpensive model which builds quick and has excellent performance. Low part count.
Michael St. Johns Tarantula wing design is discussed. Design features include air brakes vertical fins swept forward tips for CG consideration.
Nostalgia Event models originally lacked sufficient strength in spar. Tapering spars can give 3x strength with same weight as original.
Pt. 3 of series of building from plans deals with the installation of spoilers with positive servo action. Changes made to Paragon plans includeadd CF to bottom of spars sheeted leading edge add hard pointsfor wing screws replaced plywood joiners with CF.
Radio Controlled Soaring Digest March 1998 Issue
